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Youth unemployment can be sorted

Publish Date: Aug 14, 2013

By Boniface Tukwasiibwe

I would like to this opportunity to share my experience in solving youth unemployment. In the year 2002 I graduated with an honors Degree from Makerere University. I was staying with a friend in a one roomed house at Makerere Kavule near Kalerwe Slum.  In a bid to survive in Kampala, we taught in nearby private schools and we were paid sh3,000 per lesson. In a week, we could make an average of sh12,000.

One day while flipping through old newspapers we noticed an article about a gentleman who was making a living by collecting, cleaning and selling old plastic items.  We thought we could join the trade since we were staying near Kalerwe slum where such items were in plenty. We just started with money earned from our meager salary of sh12,000 per week. We employed services of local young boys in Kalerwe. For every sack full of plastic items, we paid sh100. Within a week's time, we had about 80 bags. In order to get bigger space where to clean and pack them, we requested Aunt Judith who was staying in the neighborhood to lend us her garage. She allowed. We hired a wheel barrow pusher who transported our merchandise to the newly acquired store (Garage). As we were doing this, we were also looking for jobs.

My friend Henry was the first to get a job with one of the International Banks in Kampala. I eventually also got a job as a field officer with one of the International Non-Government organizations in Hoima. We abandoned the business before we could make any sales.

I have decided to document our experience because of the following reasons:

One is that there are many opportunities outside there that can be exploited. Today my friend Victor in Mbarara is making a good living out of the business idea that we abandoned.

One doesn't need a lot of money to start a business. We started with our weekly salary of sh12,000. The business was gradually expanding.

Where there is a will there is away. Aunt Judith was willing to give us space in her garage to be used as a store.

You don't have to be ashamed of what you are doing as longs as it is bringing in money. As graduates, we were not directly collecting this garbage from the drainage channels. We employed the local boys to do it for us. We were managing by walking around!

Lastly but not least, I want to share a story from  Andrew Rugasira's  book A Good African Story, he tells an experience when he asked his American friend business mission and the reply was that he was there to make mistakes and help others avoid them.  So the youths should learn from our experience and avoid mistakes we made.

In the New Vision, Monday, August, 12, 2013, Robert Kabushenga reiterated the path taken by Germans to tackle youth unemployment by offering vocational training that is relevant to the country's economic activities out of which it derived a competitive advantage (Very important).

Last year, I got a chance to visit Chamber of Crafts and Skilled Trade in Munster City, Germany. The Institute offers 94 professions in the field of crafts and skilled trades which include hairdressing, fashion and design, brick making, bakery and shoe making, among others. They work with 24,000 companies, 16,500 apprentices and the school has only 270 employees.

Among the many professions, they are offering, they sampled for us fashion and design. Some graduates of this course who excel are taken up by some of the international fashion houses and their products are the designer clothes we buy expensively. Our guide also informed us that most watch making Companies in Switzerland source their workers from this Institute. What do we learn from the Germans? One of the lessons is that they have professionalised their work. Even a butcher is first trained!

As we grapple with youth unemployment, we could also start from somewhere. The first thing we have to change is the mindset and attitude towards work. We need to be more creative in our work. Change the way our grandfathers used to do things. For example, as a carpenter, make a foldable bed so that a room can be used as an office during the day and bedroom at night.

We could also professionalise some of our activities. Today you can't tell our university graduates to slaughter a pig. They will say it is a dirty job. But if we trained them on how to build better abattoirs and handle meat in a healthy and cleaner way, we could create a thousand jobs.  Our real estate industry is growing but masons and painters are still wanting. They want to cheat you at any opportunity and such jobs have been shunned because they are seen as cheap and for low placed members of society. If we trained our youths on proper customer care and professionalism, courses like carpentry, painting, and plumbing would be more attractive and profitable.

The stakeholders in the vocational training institutes should think creatively about what the society needs and design tailor made courses. The traditional courses of carpentry and joinery need to be redesigned to include innovativeness and creativity. The Government should also revamp our curriculum so that vocational training and soft skills are embedded in some of the courses done at university.

The writer is a development Worker with Uganda Kolping Society, Hoima.
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AROMA PATRICK-THE TRUE SON OF UGANDA!!!THIS IS MY COUNTRY!!!THIS IS MY MOTHERLAND-THE PEARL OF AFRICA DOES NOT BELONG TO THE MAFIAS ALONE,I WHO IS WALKING IN THE SHADOWS OF DEATH DAILY  AND LIVING  ON BORROWED TIMES  UNDER GOD'S PROTECTION  SINCE I SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD,BURIED SIX FEET UNDER-I,THE UNWANTED AND HATED,THE MOST VILIFIED AND SABOTAGED,THE DOWNTRODDEN AND CRIPPLED,THE INNOCENTLY DELIBERATELY TORTURED AND PERSECUTED IS ALSO A SHAREHOLDER AND A STAKEHOLDER WITH FULL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS TO PARTICIPATE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION IN ALL SECTORS AND SPHERES-NO GOING TO EXILE,NO RETREAT AND NO SURRENDER TO THE MAFIAS!!!THE END MUST SET ALL UGANDANS FREE AND CREATE A BETTER LIFE FOR ALL!!! "THE RIGHT TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT AND COURTESY,THE RIGHT TO LIVE AND THE RIGHT TO DIGNITY ARE NOT FAVORS TO BE BESTOWED BY ANYBODY:THEY ARE THE BIRTH RIGHT OF EVERY HUMAN BEING"DECLARES PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS BUSH WAR IN 1981!!!page 182-The Minds of Achievers-The Seeds of Greatness by GRACE MUSIIME MUGYENZI,Get a copy of this book at Uganda Book Shop-Opposite Communication House,Kampala.

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 A VICTIM OF APARTHEID ETHNICALLY ENTRENCHED GENOCIDAL CUM TERRORIST MAFIA DICTATORSHIP OF MUSEVENI,SUPER -BLOODY MAFIA STRATEGIST AMAMA MBABAZI,THE DEADLY SAM ENGOLA/MUSEVENI LANGO HENCHMAN  AND THEIR MAFIAS OPPOSITION/LANGO MAFIA  NETWORKS PLUS A VICTIM OF NORTHERN UGANDA NRM GRAND HUMAN RESOURCE DESTRUCTION POLICY OF ITS POTENTIALS AND GRAND NRM ECONOMIC SABOTAGE PLANS TO KEEP THE NORTH PERPETUALLY IN POVERTY/TURN US INTO BEGGARS,A NORTHERN UGANDA GENOCIDE SURVIVOR,MY RIGHT LEG BROKEN ON 24/JUNE/2001 IN  FRONT OF SAM ENGOLA LIRA HOTEL IN THE PRESENCE OF PRESIDENTIAL GUARD BRIGADE WHO PROTECTED MUSEVENI IN LIRA WHILE CAMPAIGNING FOR SAM ENGOLA THAT DAY-SURVIVING DEATH MIRACULOUSLY DUE TO GOD'S PROTECTION  AND I ESCAPED SEVERAL MURDER ATTEMPTS ON MY LIFE  RIGHT FROM 2000 TO DATE-POLITICALLY PERSECUTED,ECONOMICALLY SABOTAGED IN BUSINESS AND MY NGO PROJECTS, DENIED ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE/ EDUCATION-EXPELLED FROM MAKERERE UNIVERSITY IN FOURTH YEAR  WHILE PURSUING BACHELOR OF LAWS  AND COMPLETELY FRUSTRATED IN TERMS OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT,SOCIALLY DISLOCATED -ISOLATED AND LIVING IN PAINED PHYSICALLY,MENTALLY,EMOTIONALLY WHILE SPIRITUALLY FOUGHT WITH NRM EVIL SPIRITS(MAYEMBES/KIFARO) AND CULTURALLY UPROOTED BECAUSE OF OPPOSING/DISAGREEING WITH MUSEVENI & HIS NRM MAFIA POLITICAL  PARTY,HAILING FROM A WRONG REGION/ TRIBE/CLAN .I PATRICK AROMA TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE AFFIRM AND CONFIRM THAT WHAT I HAVE STATED HERE IS THE TRUTH AND THE WHOLE TRUTH NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS BEING DONE TO YOU OR YOUR SON BY YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT??? A MAFIA GOVERNMENT IN MY OWN MOTHERLAND WHO HATES TO SEE MY PROGRESS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY -IF THIS IS NOT APARTHEID THEN WHAT IS IT ??? FROM 1999-2004 I WAS ON TEL:NO 0772-621-761 which MTN MADE IT IN ACCESSIBLE/BLOCKED AND LATER SOLD TO ANOTHER PERSON BEFORE TAKING ON 0782-658-458.ALL MY COMMUNICATIONS AT THAT MATERIAL TIME CAN BE ACCESSED ON 0772-621-761. 

MY FIFTY YEARS DEADLY JOURNEY TO THE GOLDEN TRAGEDIES OF OUR MOTHERLAND-WHY I NEVER CELEBRATED THE  JUBILEE!!!

1962-1975-1 was not yet born

1976-1979-IDI AMIN MURDERED MY UNCLES THE LATE HON: AROMA MARTIN,EMOR BEN AND MY FATHER THE LATE PETER OGWAL 

1980-1986

WE SURVIVED ON RELIEF FOOD (YELLO POSHO +BEANS) under very difficult conditions as orphans though we had plenty of cattle that was eventually stolen by NRM/UPDF

1986-2000 My Childhood Destruction

NRA/UPDF STOLE ALL OUR CATTLE WHEN I WAS LOOKING AFTER THEM AND RAPED MY COUSIN SISTER IN MY PRESENCE

Museveni SURAMBAYA FIGHTER JETS BOMBS OUR HOME VILLAGE-FIVE KILOMETERS FROM LIRA TOWN AND I SURVIVED AS MANY INNOCENT CIVILIANS WERE KILLED PLUS LIVE STOCKS

Alice Lakwena War BEGAN that really exposed us to a lot of dead bodies bombed,shot and cut with matchetes LYING LIFELESS FROM OUR VILLAGE TO LIRA TOWN

Gen: David Tinyefuza OPERATIONS NORTH where even Children were not spared KIBOKO-we were thoroughly caned by UPDF as they arrested the 18 famous Northern Uganda Politicians at that material time

2000-2012

NRA Mafias start my PERSECUTION at Makerere University

Breaking of my leg

Expulsion from Makerere

Museveni STATE HOUSE PLUS THEIR MAFIA NETWORKS ON MY HOT PURSUIT DEVISING ALL STRATEGIES TO MURDER ME

 2012 ON WARDS

• STILL SURVIVING THE MAFIAS,LIVING IN FEAR AND PAIN,BEING HUNTED LEFT,RIGHT AND CENTER BY MAFIAS PLUS THEIR NETWORKS.
• ON 29/JANUARY/2004 DURING RADIO ONE EKIMEEZA TALKSHOW AT CLUB OBBLIGATTO I REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF MUSEVENI CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION BOUGHT FROM NORTH KOREA AND IRAN-THAT WAS HIDDEN UNDER GULU AIRPORT HUNKER AND THE UNITED NATIONS GRABBED,DESTROYED AND TOOK AWAY THE REMAINING ONES TO UNKNOWN DESTINATION-THIS IS ONE REASON WHY PRESIDENT MUSEVENI AND HIS MAFIAS CAN NEVER-NEVER-I SAY NEVER FORGIVE ME SINCE I EXPOSED AND SPOILED THEIR DEADLY DESTRUCTIVE AGENDA FOR NORTHERN UGANDA!!!

ON-TOP OF THE ABOVE,NO TERM LIMITS PROMOTING LIFE PRESIDENCY, CREATING HOPELESSNESS, UNCERTAINTY & CONSOLIDATING APARTHIED PLUS TRIBALISM, THERE IS MASSIVE POVERTY,UNEMPLOYMENT,HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES,IMPUNITY,MURDERS,INEQUALITY,GENOCIDE,DISUNITY IN THE COUNTRY,ETC